The Big Lug

I haven’t had a post yet this summer about the farm. Last year we became a member of our local CSA. Every Sunday we get fresh veggies either from their farm stand or from the pick-your-own fields. We get enough that we split our share with our friends Mark and Heather and still have too much to eat every week. This week I decided to document our veggies. All the colors could be the only Project Spectrum entry I’ve done!
Every week the farm stand has different offerings. This week we got red onions, shallots, potatoes, cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, green and purple bell peppers, dill, basil, cilantro, and garlic. The farm has the best potatoes I’ve ever had. They are so buttery when you cook them. The onions and garlic also have a different flavor than what I buy at the grocery store. The farm is in Jersey, so the tomatoes are of course good. We make sauce and salsa throughout the summer.

Outside in big bins were yellow watermelons and musk melons (which taste like cantaloupe).


There’s also pick-your-own crops at the farm and this week I picked a bunch of specialty basil, some thyme, oregano, and Mr. Lug picked green beans. I also picked a few okra (okras? okri?) to try out. (Sorry Heather I forgot to give you any! But I only picked about 5 small pieces.) I cut them up, tossed them in cornmeal and deep fried them. Pretty tasty.


With the veggies this week I’m planning to make cucumber dill salad, potatoes with dill and lemon, salsa, pesto, and who knows what else.
This makes the perfect sandwich (if you like tomatoes):
1 Jersey Tomato
Mayonnaise
White bread
Salt

So good. You slice the tomato into thick slices, toast the bread, slather on mayo, salt the tomato and viola – the perfect sandwich.

I returned to knitting group tonight. I haven’t been in a while and I am so impressed at everyone’s work! While I’ve been slacking off barely knitting everyone’s been working on the Lady Eleanor! I feel like such a slacker. I am both a slacker and a follower because I now really want to knit this! So I am inspired to keep knitting bigger and better things, but first I have to finish knitting the tank top I started with Tess Microfiber ribbon. I am done the back:

I’ve got maybe an inch done on the front. This yarn is most definitely high maintenance. You must use fray stop and you have to carefully unravel just a little off the skein at a time.
Next I have to finish my cable scarf and then onto Lady Eleanor perhaps? So much for stash busting. That will require a yarn purchase…
On house news we actually got a whole room painted! Yay!

First of all a finished object!

Simple baby hat. Pattern: Yarn Harlot’s no pattern hat pattern from Knitting Rules! Yarn: Filatura Di Crosa Baby in Kiss. Knit on number 7 needles.
That was a mindless project! It’s a cute simple roll brim baby hat for my coworker’s baby. I’m planning on adding a flower to it and making matching mittens and booties. Very fast, very satisfying! Actually I’m a little embarassed at how simple it is, but my addled brain couldn’t handle anything more complicated at the moment. I feel like a blind monkey could have knit it, but it’s the thought that counts right?
Speaking of thoughts – I lost my mind for 20 minutes today. Let me say that me buying three pairs of shoes in a boutique shoe store would normally be grounds for divorce with Mr. Lug, but today I found the mother of all sales – buy one pair get two free. That’s right. Buy ONE get TWO free. TWO. Gah!


God help me I thought for a moment – I could get SIX shoes for the price of TWO! But I contained myself.